Garment-waist adjuster.



A. K. HURST. GARMENT WAIST ADJUSTER. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 23, 1912.

1,094,654. I PatentedApr. 28, 1914.

Suva wot Albert KHUPSI.

1 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT K. Hunsr, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Waist Adjusters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has special reference to novel and useful improvements in garment waist adjusters and more particularly to certain improvements in my Letters Patent No. 1,012,083, issued December 19, 1911, and my application filed January 7, 1911, under Serial Number 601,339.

The essential object of the invention is evolved in the provision of a device attachable to the waist of a pair of trousers or a skirt, and which will more conveniently permit the adjustment of the circumference of the waist than heretofore accomplished and at the same time insure of the perfect fitting of the garment.

Another important object of the invention is evolved in the provision of a waist adjuster which besides avoiding the necessity of using a belt or suspenders will cause a pair of trousers or a skirt to so conform to the wearer that the hips will support the garment and great benefit to the health will be thereby accorded.

A still further object of the invention is to provide in a waist adjuster formed of a pair of pivoted or hinged sections, a novel connection for the sections which will avoid the torsioning or bending of the joined portions of the arms, as is caused when the hook-arms of the above referred to devices are bent or swung outwardly in engagement of the hooks with the several eyes and also permit joining of the sections with greater facility and at the same time avoiding their accidental disengagement.

A further object is evolved in the provision of a device of the character named in which one arm carries a plurality of eyes arranged on a line coincident or parallel with the top edges of the waist band and adjustable hookarms adapted to engage either of said eyes without a binding action or arranging the eyes on a line concentric with the pivot of the sections, and by so doing, together with the use of the arms, avoid bunching of the garment at the waist Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 23, 1912.

STATS PATE'N GARMENT-WAIST ADJ USTER.

Patented Apr. 28, 1914.

Serial No. 716,712.

joint and insuring of proper fitting of the garment at and below the stomach and seat.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of the combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which;

Figure 1 is a view showing the outside of a garment, either a pair of trousers or a skirt, fragmentary portions thereof being shown in side elevation with the improved adjuster attached. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the adjuster detached and showing the manner of manipulating the same. Fig. 4: is a detail view showing the method of attaching the arms of the adjuster.

As illustrated in the drawings, the numeral 5 designates the waist portion of a garment, either a pair of trousers or a skirt and which is provided with a vertical slit 6 at the sides or back as shall be found most desirable. The slit or aperture is of the required length and as my improved adjuster is used with each, a description of one will suflice for both. The adjuster comprises an arm or section 7 which is secured to the garment at the rear side of the slit on both sides of the garment, preferably by embedding the same in the cloth between the lining and facing. The upper or free extremity of said arm is provided with a cross member or arm 8 branching at equal distances on either side and provided with a vertical central offset eye or keeper 9 and relatively radial end eyes or keepers 10 and 11, all of which are disposed on a line coincident with or parallel to the upper edge of the garment so that the outer eyes will lie a trifle farther from the bottom end of the arm 7 than the central eye. The arm is stamped or otherwise made from a single section of material preferably metal and has the upper or free extremities of the outwardly offset eyes formed with apertures 12 for the attachment of the said part to the garment, as by stitching. As will be seen from the drawings, the device is secured between the cloth and lining of the garment so that the cloth is slitted as shown at 13 for the passage and projection of the eyes to lie without the same and in order to prevent mutilation of the cloth due to any slight movement of the arm '2', the extremities of the cross arm 8 are provided with apertures 1% for further attachment of the device to the garment. in Fig. l, the device is shown attached partly dotted while in Fig. 2, the device is shown attached between the cloth and lining in manner above described. The other mem her of the adjuster consists of a two-part adj ustable arm, constructed to permit Vari ation of its length, and comprises an inner section 15 and an outer section 16, the upper end of the section 5 and the lower end 01" the section 16 having integral side lugs 15 and 16 bent around each other to hold the parts in longitudinal alinemcnt but permit them to slide freely lengthwise, or more properly, permit the outer section to move on the inner se tion, for proper engagement with either of the aforesaid eyes as will be herein er nore fully made apparent. The free extremity of the outer section is provided with an inturned hook 17 to engage the eyes or oilsets 9, l0 and 11 and is also provided with vertical and lateral extensions l8 and 19 suitably apertured for loose attachi'nent to the inner face of the garment at the front. of each slit, either exposed or inclosed between the lining and cloth.

The improyd connection of the two sections or arms 7 and one comprised by the sections 15 and 16, consists of a relatively circular cnlar 'ement- 20 formed at the inner end of the arm 7, such enlargement being centrally d pressed outwardly and having a segmental opening 21 in its upper portion with its straight ed e located above the center of the depression and a vertically depending slot communicating therewith LO a point near the bottom of the depre sion while the center is reces arcuately on either side. The lower entren'iity oil the section 15 of the other arm is formed with a substantially circular enlargement which is ofiiset inwardly as AU shown at and whose diameter is equal to the interior diameter of the depression of the en :gement 20 but greater than the base or straight side of the opening. By this means, the enlargement 20 can be readily fitted in the opening edgewise through the ope: 21 and the vertical slot 22, in the manner shown in Fig. a of the drawings and the enlargement holds the two-section arm fro displacement but permits tree outward movement thereof in contradistinction to my former pivotal connection which wag bent or torsioned in the adjustment oi the hook-arm with the several eyes in varying the waist circumfe once. The enlargement 23 is also provided with a central opening 2t coincident with the slot and the arcuaie recesses on either side thewol' for the anchoring of the sections in pivotal engagement alter placed in the garment, by means of a tape loop 25. The

eoeeaa inner ed e 01" the enlargement 23 is also SBYQlGd or cut to provide a straight edge as shown at 2", so that when the two-part arm is swung outwardly, the undue extension of the inner end of the arm to project o the body and cause injury is n'erented Thus when the garments are made, the members may be separately secured to the garment and after being sewed or otherwise attached, are connected, thus permitting one workman to attach one set of members to garments while another worl'- man is attaching an tl or set of members to other garments. t will also appear that when the sections are in place and COIL ected, the hook-arm may be readily swung radially and disengaged from one eye and lengthened or shortened for engagement with another eye, so that the connection of the hook with an eye will always lie at the same distance from the top edge of the garment instead of moving away from the same as would rigid hook-arm or eyes arranged in a radial line concentric with the pivot of the sections. By this means, launching or unsightly appearance of the cloth is prevented and the slit edges will always overlap with their top edges in alinement.

The fit afforded by this fastener or adjuster, by the lengthening oi the sections such as for instance for use with a shirt, obviates the necessity of using other means of support, although they may be used with equal facility and the abdomen will be so supported as to serve the purpose of a truss and prove greatly beneficial to the health of the wearer. The fact that the hook-arm has free outward movement also permits enrobing and disrobing with greater convenience than with the sections as heretofore connected, it being also obvious that any number of the eyes may be employed shall be found necessary in adjusting the garments to the body in accordance with the relation of the normal and abnormal sizes of the waist circumference, either for the sides of trousers or skirts or the placket of the latter. it is also to be understood that the hooks are made right and left hand for opposite sides of the garments.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is;

1. In a garment fastening tor plachets, a pair of pivoted arms, one of said arms having an opening and an upset slotted portion adjacent the opening, the other arm having an oil-set enlarged portion having a width greater than the openin oi the first arm and inserted through the opening and slotted portion of the first arm, a fastening member on the end of one of the arms, and means carried by the other arm and adapted to receive the fastening menu ber.

52. in a placket closure, apair of arms pivoted together and arranged to be seends arranged to be secured to a skirt Whereoured to the adjacent placket portions of a by the arms are held together and permitskirt, one of said arms having an off-set ted to have oscillating connection.

enlarged portion at its end provided with In testimony whereof I alfix my signature an aperture the other arm having at its in presence of two Witnesses, this 23rd. day end an opening and an upset portion proof August 1912.

vided with a slot, the enlarged end of one arm being arranged to pass through the opening and slot of the other arm, and a tape passing through aperture of one arm and the slot of the other arm and having its ALBERT K. HURST.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS S. MAGUIRE, J. S. MURRAY.

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